SHREWSBURY — Lonzo Guthrie, the Georgia man charged with the 1974 killing of Eileen B. Ferro of Shrewsbury, is expected to be arraigned Mondy in Worcester Superior Court. The proceeding had been scheduled for this morning but was rescheduled.

Mr. Guthrie of Austell, Ga., a former Worcester resident who police said delivered furniture to the Ferro home at 30 Ladyslipper Drive the day before the killing, was arrested in Georgia in February on a warrant charging him with the murder.

Paul Jarvey, a spokesman for the office of District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr., said Mr. Guthrie was being brought back from Georgia Thursday.

A governor's warrant had to be obtained because he had fought extradition.

"It's a long process. We had to provide all sorts of documentation to prove this is indeed the guy we're looking for," Mr. Jarvey said, explaining the legal process to bring the suspect back to Massachusetts.

Mr. Early said police questioned Mr. Guthrie soon after the killing, but there was no evidence to link him to the crime.

After the evolution of modern forensic technology, evidence from the Shrewsbury crime scene was submitted to the crime lab last year for DNA testing. That DNA profile matched Mr. Guthrie's DNA profile, according to police.

After he was convicted of rape in Los Angeles and completed a jail sentence, he returned to Georgia, where he was arrested on a charge of driving without a license. That arrest violated his probation in California, which led to Mr. Guthrie having to submit a DNA sample, according to the district attorney.